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Single Window Initiative's participating government departments and agencies, and their programmes
Government departments/agencies Programmes
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Environment and Climate Change Canada Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Recyclable Materials
Ozone Depleting Substances and Halocarbon Alternatives
Vehicle and Engine Emissions Program
Wildlife Enforcement
Fisheries and Oceans Canada Trade Tracking
Aquatic Invasive Species
Aquatic Biotechnology
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In addition to the federal excise duties and taxes noted above, the provinces and territories may levy their own product-specific taxes on the same products and, in some instances, also on other goods. For example, all provinces apply a Tire Recycling Fee (TRF), ranging from CAD 3 to CAD 14 per new tyre, as an environmental tax. In Ontario, non-refillable containers are subject to an environmental tax of CAD 0.0893 for beer and other beverages. (...)

The Pan-Canadian Approach to Pricing Carbon Pollution , a federal benchmark announced in 2016, aims at ensuring that carbon pollution pricing applies to a broad set of emission sources throughout Canada, with increasing stringency over time, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the lowest cost to business and consumers, and to support innovation and clean growth. The federal benchmark recognized that provinces and territories have implemented, or are developing, their own carbon pollution pricing systems, and outlined criteria all systems must meet to ensure they are stringent, fair, and efficient. The Federal Government committed to implementing a federal carbon pollution pricing system in provinces and territories that request it or do not have a carbon pricing system that meets the federal benchmark in 2019.

Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan and the Northwestern Territories have established, or are on track to implement, provincial explicit price-based systems or cap-and-trade systems. The Federal Government is implementing the federal carbon pollution pricing system in Manitoba, New Brunswick and Ontario, and the federal system also applies in part in Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan. Carbon pollution pricing will take effect in the territories in July 2019, with the Northwest Territories implementing its own system, and Nunavut and Yukon having agreed to the federal system.

All direct proceeds from pricing carbon pollution under the federal system are to be returned to the jurisdiction in which they were collected. The Federal Government is to provide an annual update on how proceeds have been used. Provincial and territorial governments that have committed to addressing climate change by voluntarily adopting the federal system will receive these proceeds directly from the Federal Government and can decide on how to use them. Proceeds from carbon pollution pricing remain in the jurisdiction of origin.

The importation of certain goods into Canada is prohibited by law. Such goods are grouped within tariff lines 9897.00.00, 9898.00.00 and 9899.00.00 of the Customs Tariff , and include certain endangered species or those posing a potential threat to the environment;(...)

(...)on the basis of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, Canada has promulgated several regulations governing the exportation, importation, interprovincial movement, and recycling of hazardous waste, as well as the Ozone-depleting Substances and Halocarbon Alternatives Regulations to implement intergovernmental arrangements and commitments.

Main import restrictions and licensing requirements, March 2019
Product Main legal basis/rationale
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Unregistered pest-control products for the purpose of manufacturing, own use or research Pest Control Products Act, to ensure that the importation of an unregistered pest-control product is used for the specific purpose, and to
ensure that it does not pose any unacceptable health or environmental risks.
Prescribed nuclear equipment and information, radiation devices, and nuclear substances Nuclear Safety and Control Act, to ensure that products subject to regulatory control are destined to authorized persons or organizations, and that their use will
not pose undue risk to health, safety, security, and the environment (implements international obligations).
Species regulated under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
Wild Fauna and Flora Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act (WAPPRIITA), to allow the importation of
certain species and their by-products in internationally-agreed circumstances. For species in Schedule II, to ensure that there are sufficient safeguards and security
to prevent escapes to the wild.
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Hazardous waste and hazardous recyclable material Canadian Environmental Protection Act, to implement international and bilateral obligations.
Ozone-depleting substances Canadian Environmental Protection Act, to implement international obligations.

The Automotive Innovation Fund (AIF) was launched in 2008 to provide repayable contributions to innovation and R&D projects in the automotive sector to develop and build greener, more fuel-efficient vehicles. (...)

(...)During FY 2018, the BDC launched the Cleantech Practice, to deliver CAD 600 million in capital entrusted to the BDC by the Federal Government to help build globally-competitive Canadian cleantech firms and a long-term, commercially-sustainable cleantech industry that can attract significant private capital. At the end of FY 2017/18, acceptances for the Cleantech Scale Up Initiative totalled CAD 40 million, with close to CAD 10 million disbursed. (...)